REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: Jon Miller
I went to see Salina Kosgei a few weeks after her thrilling, one-second, come-from-behind victory in the 2009 Boston Marathon. I'd been moved by pictures of her after she won, raising the trophy with an enormous smile on her face. I wanted to show that Kenyan runners, who have dominated the sport for the last 20 years, are people, not machines. And I wanted to learn about the odd economics of this peculiarly demanding job...
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